Coleridge and the idea of friendship, 1789-1804
By: Gurion Taussig.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Friends and associates.; Male friendship -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Male friendship -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.; Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.; Friendship in literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804, takes us to the heart of Coleridge's concerns as both writer and friend. In analyzing the poet's most important male friendships during the 1790s, particularly in term of late-eighteenth-century ideas about friendship's social and spiritual context, it shows how Coleridge's experience of relationship was both structured by and contributed toward a broad contemporary debate about the nature of "the friend." The book examines Coleridge's epistolary relations with Poole, Southey, Lamb, Lloyd, Thelwall, Wordsworth, and Godwin during 1789-1804, and traces how each friendship negotiated issues that were being urgently discussed throughout English culture at that time. Each chapter is structured around a set of competing ideas of friendship which inform a particular Coleridgean relationship, and several chapters trace the difficult emergence of a specific idea to its practical realization in the poet's life - sometimes with disastrous consequences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-367) and index.